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APPENDIX
NAME
(OPTIONAL)
Tick Wherever
Applicable
11yrs to 14 yrs
1
Early Adolescence
15yrs to 18 yrs
AGE 2
Middle Adolescence
18yrs to 20 yrs
3
Late Adolescence
1 MALE
GENDER
2 FEMALE
1 ILLITERATE
2 UNDERGRADUATE
3 GRADUATE
FATHER’S
4 POST GRADUATE
EDUCATION
5 DOCTORATE
6 ANY OTHER (SPECIFY)
1 PRIVATE
2 GOVERNMENT
FATHER’S 3 SELF EMPLOYED
OCCUPATION 4 UNEMPLOYED
5 ANY OTHER, SPECIFY
1 ILLITERATE
2 UNDERGRADUATE
MOTHER’S 3 GRADUATE
EDUCATION 4 POST GRADUATE
5 DOCTORATE
6 ANY OTHER (SPECIFY)
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MOTHERS 1 EMPLOYED
WORKING
STATUS 2 HOUSEWIFE
1 HINDU
2 CATHOLICS
RELIGION 3 MUSLIM
ANY OTHER, SPECIFY
4
1 JOINT FAMILY
FAMILY TYPE
2 NUCLEAR FAMILY
Part 1
Instructions
Read the following questions carefully. In front of each question there are two options
‘Yes’ or ‘No’. You have to tick (√) in any one of them whichever you think is suitable
and correct. Do not leave any question. Your answers will be kept confidential.
Part II
Instructions
Like Part I, each question have have two answers, Yes’ or ‘No’. out of these answers,
you have to select appropriate answer and tick the correct (√) mark either ‘Yes’ or
‘No’ i.e. any one in the box given below. Do not leave any question.
21 Do you often indulge into hot discussions with your siblings due to one
reason or the other?
22 Do you like mixing with people very much?
23 Do you often complain of constipation?
24 Do useless topics often come into your thinking?
25 Do you feel suffocation in school or college environment?
26 Is your home environment peaceful?
27 Do you easily make friends with strangers?
28 Do you have complaints related to digestion?
29 Do you lose your balance if someone slightly criticizes you?
30 Do you like going to school or college everyday?
31 Don’t you do a work without taking permission of your parents?
32 Do you take help from others without any hesitation?
33 Do you wear glasses with power?
34 Do you get upset if someone insults you?
35 Do you like sharing a work along with your friends?
36 Do you feel that your family members like you lesser?
37 Do you want to be the key person in any social work?
38 Do you have less blood in your body?
39 Do you often feel helpless?
40 If your friend doesn’t have a book do you help him by offering your
own book?
41 Do you get worried, if your parents fall ill?
42 If you travel by train, do you easily make friends with your fellow
passengers?
43 In case of quarrel at home, do you try to pacify it?
44 Do you express your views before others without any hesitation?
45 Do you get nervous to see somebody bleeding?
YES NO
46 If you go to somebody’s house do you comment if you don’t get your
choice food?
47 Are you often ahead of other students in a class competition?
48 Do members of your family do not love you as they should?
49 Do you often keep silent even if you don’t like something?
50 Do you take care if your neighbours?
51 Do you like to stay at your friend’s house instead of staying at home?
52 If you go to any of your relatives, do you easily get adjusted in that
environment?
53 Do your parents criticize you, if you make a mistake?
54 Do you feel unusual nervousness when you see a spider or a lizard?
55 If a person wants to see various rooms of your house do you appreciate
him for this view?
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Part III
Instructions
Given below are some situations which a person comes across in his day to day life.
Read these situations carefully and try to answer, if you were in that situation what
would you have done? Your answer should be any form of the two alternatives given
below for each question. So, whichever answer you think to be right, put a correct (√)
tick mark in the box in front of it. Do not leave any questions.
Your parents want you to get into a business so you can earn good
money. But you want to become a good doctor so that you can serve
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people and treat poor and helpless. What would you do in such a
situation?
a. Agree with your father’s view?
b. Begin preparation for medical examination?
Your examinations are at hand. Your parents ask you to give more time
59 to your studies but your attention often goes towards movies and games.
What would you do in such a situation?
a. You would not listen to your parent’s advice?
b. Not take interest in games and entertainment?
If while walking on road a person meets with an accident and you reach
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there all of a sudden, what would you do in such a situation?
a. You would try to take that person to a doctor or hospital?
b. Watch the person for some time and then walk away?
If your brother or your sister brings an eraser or a pencil stolen from school,
you rebuke him and make him understand that stealing is a bad habit. If he
61 steals someone’s belongings, people call him a bad person. But one day your
friend steals Rs. 500 and comes with the money and says, “Let us enjoy with
this amount.” What would you do in such a situation?
a. You will make your friend understand not to do so?
b. Support your friend?
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In an examination the questions are very tough and you know the
answers. Your friend asks you to tell him the answer. As a friend, you
think you should help him. But at the same time, it comes to your mind
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that cheating in examinations or helping others both are offences in an
examination and if the examiner catches, he will also severely punish
you. What would you do in such a situation?
a. With courage try to make possible help to the friend.
b. Rebuke the friend.
At home, if your parents quarrel over some issue, you get worried for
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sometime, what would you do in such a situation?
a. You will try to pacify your mother or father or both.
b. You won’t go near them because of fear.
64 If a new teacher comes to your class. Some students try to harass him.
What would you do in such a situation?
a. You won’t take your friends side.
b. You will tell your friends some new ways to harass the new teacher.
65 If some boys flee from your school to watch a movie, thus committing an act of
indiscipline. When you came to know about this, what would you do?
a. You would report to your teacher about those boys.
b. Will remain neutral and do your work.
66 If your friend’s father falls ill and he doesn’t even have money for his
treatment, what would you do
a. Will arrange money for the treatment of the friend’s father.
b. You will sympathize your friend
68 If you come to know that your friend doesn’t have books to read, though he is
very interested to study, as his poor parents somehow manage their expenses
of house. In such a situation what would you do?
a. Will give your own books to read for some time?
b. You’ll promise to get him a book?
69 If a boy does caricature of the teacher in the class, to make his friends
laugh and you see the boy doing so, what you do?
a. You will indication to the boy not to do so?
b. You will complain to the teacher in the middle of the class?
70 While taking bath in a river or lake, you see small child drowning. In that
situation, what would you do?
a. You will loudly cry out ‘Help’, ‘Help’.
b. Try to save him yourself.
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Part IV
Instructions
In this, there are some questions related to your behavior. There are no fixed answers
to these questions, so whichever answer you think right, will be the right answer for
you and you have to mark the answer below either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in the boxes provided
with a correct (√) mark. Do not leave any question.
Part V
Instructions
Read the following statements carefully. In front of each question there are two
answers given, that is ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’. Out of which you have to select the most
appropriate and correct one and make a (√) sign on it. Do not leave any question.
(WHOQOL)-BREF
The following questions ask you how much you have experienced certain
things in the last weeks.
Not at all A little A Very An
moderate much extreme
amount amount
To what extent do you 1 2 3 4 5
3 feel that physical pain
prevents you from
doing what you need to
do?
How much do you need 1 2 3 4 5
any medical treatment
4 to function in your
daily life?
The following questions ask about how completely you experience or were
able to do certain things in the last two weeks.
Not at all A little Moderate Mostly Completely
Do you have enough 1 2 3 4 5
10 energy for everyday
life?
Are you able to accept 1 2 3 4 5
11 your bodily
appearance?
The following questions ask you to say how good or satisfied you felt about
various aspects of your life over the last two weeks
The following question refers to how often you have felt or experienced
certain things in the last two weeks
General Scale
Instructions:
Students have a number of concerns or worries about things such as school, work,
family, friends, the world and the like. Below is a list of ways in which people of your
age cope with a variety of concerns and problems. Please indicate by marking the
appropriate box, the things you do to deal with your concerns and worries. Work
down the page and mark 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 as you come to each statement. There are no
right and wrong answers. Do not spend too much time on any statement but give the
answer which describes how you feel.
1 2 3 4 5
Doesn’t apply or Used very little Used sometimes Used Often Used a great
don’t do it deal
Sr. 1 2 3 4 5
No
1. Talk to others to see what they would do if they
had the problem
2. Work at solving what’s causing the problem
3. Keep up with work as required
4. Play sport
5. Let God take care of my worries
6. Ask for advice from a qualified person
7. Worry about my future
8. Make a good impression on others who matter to
me
9. There is nothing I can do about the problem so I
don’t do anything
10. I just give up
11. Meet with friends
12. Cry or scream
13. Hope for the best
14. Ring up a close friend
15. Keep my feelings to myself
16. Ignore the problem
17. Talk to others and give each other support
18. Work at solving the problem to the best of my
ability
19. Attend school regularly
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Specific Scale
Instructions:
Students have a number of concerns or worries about things such as school, work,
family, friends, the world and the like. Which is the main concern for you in terms of
your life? Please describe your main concern, very briefly, in the space below
…………………………………………..
Below is a list of ways in which people of your age cope with a variety of concerns
and problems. Please indicate by marking the appropriate box, the things you do to
deal with your concerns and worries. Work down the page and mark 1, 2, 3, 4, 05 5 as
you come to each statement. There are no right and wrong answers. Do not spend too
much time on any statement but give the answer which describes how you feel.
1 2 3 4 5
Doesn’t apply or Used very little Used sometimes Used Often Used a great
don’t do it deal
Sr. 1 2 3 4 5
No
1. Talk to others to see what they would do if they
had the problem
2. Work at solving what’s causing the problem
3. Keep up with work as required
4. Play sport
5. Let God take care of my worries
6. Ask for advice from a qualified person
7. Worry about my future
8. Make a good impression on others who matter to
me
9. There is nothing I can do about the problem so I
don’t do anything
10. I just give up
11. Meet with friends
12. Cry or scream
13. Hope for the best
14. Ring up a close friend
15. Keep my feelings to myself
16. Ignore the problem
17. Talk to others and give each other support
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